Looking at damage

Looking at damage

Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun

Left to right, William J. Baird, III, CFO and Director of Management Services, and (glasses) Doug Johnson, capital project manager, Archdiocese of Baltimore, look over some of the damage sustained in the main dome in the Baltimore Basilica. Six years after a $40 million restoration of the oldest Catholic cathedral in the nation, cracks are expanding as a result of the August earthquake. Repairs will begin in June and take about eight months. The only services will be weekend Masses and about 21 already scheduled weddings.

Left to right, William J. Baird, III, CFO and Director of Management Services, and (glasses) Doug Johnson, capital project manager, Archdiocese of Baltimore, look over some of the damage sustained in the main dome in the Baltimore Basilica. Six years after a $40 million restoration of the oldest Catholic cathedral in the nation, cracks are expanding as a result of the August earthquake. Repairs will begin in June and take about eight months. The only services will be weekend Masses and about 21 already scheduled weddings. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

Left to right, William J. Baird, III, CFO and Director of Management Services, and (glasses) Doug Johnson, capital project manager, Archdiocese of Baltimore, look over some of the damage sustained in the main dome in the Baltimore Basilica. Six years after a $40 million restoration of the oldest Catholic cathedral in the nation, cracks are expanding as a result of the August earthquake. Repairs will begin in June and take about eight months. The only services will be weekend Masses and about 21 already scheduled weddings.